Life with PicassoNew York Review of Books, 11 juin 2019 - 384 pages Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains “one of the most illuminating [books] we’ve had on the mind and spirit of Picasso”—and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists (Los Angeles Times). Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career. |
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... brought bittersweet reminiscences of those days to my house in Paris when she came to give my wife French lessons. About a dozen years ago Alice Toklas described to me a visit she had recently made to Picasso and Françoise Gilot in the ...
... brought bittersweet reminiscences of those days to my house in Paris when she came to give my wife French lessons. About a dozen years ago Alice Toklas described to me a visit she had recently made to Picasso and Françoise Gilot in the ...
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... brought with him a bowl of cherries and offered some to all of us, in his strong Spanish accent, calling them cerisses, with a soft, double-s sound. Geneviève was a very beautiful girl, of French Catalan ancestry but a Grecian type ...
... brought with him a bowl of cherries and offered some to all of us, in his strong Spanish accent, calling them cerisses, with a soft, double-s sound. Geneviève was a very beautiful girl, of French Catalan ancestry but a Grecian type ...
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... brought up the question in a similar manner. I told him I could promise him nothing in advance, but he could always try and see for himself. That nettled him. “In spite of your age,” he said, “I get the impression that you've had a lot ...
... brought up the question in a similar manner. I told him I could promise him nothing in advance, but he could always try and see for himself. That nettled him. “In spite of your age,” he said, “I get the impression that you've had a lot ...
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... brought on by the conflict between the life I had led up until then and the vision I had of the kind of life I should be leading. Ever since early childhood I had suffered from insomnia and had used my nights more for reading than for ...
... brought on by the conflict between the life I had led up until then and the vision I had of the kind of life I should be leading. Ever since early childhood I had suffered from insomnia and had used my nights more for reading than for ...
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... brought his photographer to take pictures of recent drawings and paintings. Then there was “Baron” Jean Mollet, who had been secretary to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire when Apollinaire was the official spokesman for the Cubist movement ...
... brought his photographer to take pictures of recent drawings and paintings. Then there was “Baron” Jean Mollet, who had been secretary to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire when Apollinaire was the official spokesman for the Cubist movement ...
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